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The Water Diaries: Living with the Global Water Crisis in Bangladesh and Kenya
Author(s): Sonia Hoque (Author), Rob Hope (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: February 13, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 148 pages
- ISBN-10: 1009299581
- ISBN-13: 9781009299589
Book Description
Cyclones, flash floods, droughts, and pollution batter the aspirations of people living at the sharp end of water insecurity. By charting the daily water use behaviour of people in Kenya and Bangladesh for a year, this book explores the intersecting drivers of global water risks and the spatial and seasonal inequalities. Comprising a clear methodological chapter and four detailed case studies of both urban and rural areas, it critically reviews existing policy and institutional design, arguing for a new architecture in allocating risks and responsibilities fairly and effectively between government, communities, enterprises, and water users. In identifying the risks and potential responses for policy and investment action, it provides theoretical insights and a practical guide to developing more effective policy in Kenya and Bangladesh, with solutions that will be applicable in other regions facing similar challenges. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
This book provides insights into the regional and local factors influencing water insecurity and its effects on people’s daily lives.
About the Author
Sonia Hoque is a Bangladesh-born environmental social scientist, with eight years of postdoctoral research on water security and poverty under the FCDO-funded REACH Programme at the University of Oxford. She has worked in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Kenya, focusing on the inequalities in household and individual experiences of water risks related to rural and urban drinking water services and river pollution by the global fashion industry.
Rob Hope is Professor of Water Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He directed the REACH programme that has improved water security for over 10 million vulnerable people. He co-founded Uptime in 2018 which has issued results-based contracts to guarantee reliable drinking water for over 5 million rural people in 17 countries in 2024. He has published over 100 academic papers, served as an adviser to governments, UNICEF, UK FCDO, USAID, World Bank, and UK Research and Innovation. His research has featured in the Economist, the BBC, and global media.
